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...night in February 2001 in nearby Hunan province, six police officers in the city of Yueyang?200 kilometers southwest of Wuhan?paid a call on the cramped, three-bedroom apartment of Duan Guocheng, a 29-year-old security guard who lived with his parents. The officers wouldn't tell Duan's mother, Hu Yunxiang, why they were there, but they stayed all night, sitting in her living room where the only decoration is a poster of Chairman Mao. Next morning, Duan came home, peeked in through the window?and took flight. The officers chased him into a vegetable market...
...Duan was a bit of a dandy, fond of neatly pressed Western-style suits. But he had led a troubled life. He had twice been sentenced to jail for robbery, and he was estranged from his father, Duan Shengqing, a trash collector whom he blamed for the family's poverty. "He'd say other people's dads earned money, but that I can't read and can't do anything," recalls his father. Duan's mother, however, had doted on him?her fourth and final child?and he used to confide in her about his frustrations over women...
...Charles Duan '04, however, said he was indifferent to the parents' presence, but that he tried to avoid the long lines at Annenberg...
...Hank who unwittingly sparked the contention when he went to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon) in October 1994, in search of promising new business ventures that might result from the Clinton Administration's impending normalization of relations with Vietnam. While driving down Le Duan Boulevard one afternoon, Hank Meijer asked his driver to stop at the former U.S. embassy, atop which the tragic last moments of America's involvement in Vietnam had been played out. Abandoned since and allowed to run down into a weed-choked eyesore where only chickens wandered among the shards...
Vietnam's parade route to prosperity, though, has taken a few detours. In April 1975, party leader Le Duan promised a television and a refrigerator in every home within 10 years. Instead, there followed what Vietnamese call "the 10 bad years," during which orthodox communist policies and a costly occupation of Cambodia made Vietnam one of the world's poorest countries. In 1986 Nguyen Van Linh, a southerner, took over with a call for gradual reform. In 1989, as communism seemed to be collapsing elsewhere in the world, Vietnam flung open its doors to foreign investment. The economy has been...